Hot on the heels of the recent Skyfire launch at DEMO 08, Opera Software today introduced Opera Mobile 9.5, the latest version of its mobile browser. The software will be demonstrated next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

"Significant features in this application will include faster page rendering, zooming and panning on web pages, and Flash support," writes Brighthand's Ed Hardy. "It will use Opera's Presto rendering engine to achieve page load speeds comparable to a desktop experience, including pages with heavy use of programming languages such as JavaScript and Ajax."

"Opera Mobile is currently shipped on more than 100 million phones with many of the world's top mobile resellers and operators such as HTC, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and T-Mobile," writes Computerworld's Christian Harris. "Opera Mobile 9.5 will be available on all major platforms, including Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux, as both a standalone browser and as a software developer's kit."

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